Wednesday March 22 1995, John Poltorak writes to All:

 JP> #include 

 JP> main()
 JP> {
 JP>         int len, width;

 JP>         printf("Enter length: ");
 JP>         scanf("%d", &len);
 JP>         printf("Enter width: ");
 JP>         scanf("%d", &width);

 JP>         printf("area is %d", len * width);
 JP> }


 JP> This is supposed to prompt the user for two values and compute the result.

 JP> When I run this program, I don't get any prompts, before entering any
 JP> values. Is this just a quirk of using an OS/2 compiler, or is Mr. Schildt
 JP> in error here?

 JP> I'm using ICC from C Set/2 v1.0 and this is what the output looks like:-

 JP> [F:\dev\c]ex3
 JP> 12
 JP> 15
 JP> Enter length: Enter width: area is 180
 JP> [F:\dev\c]

Having just installed emx+gcc, I now get the expected results, viz:

[F:\dev\c]ex3
Enter length: 12
Enter width: 15
area is 180
[F:\dev\c]

I am simply stunned to find ICC acting in such an erroneous way with
something so trivial. I also got unexpected results when displaying numbers
of type 'double'. All this makes me rather hesitant about learning 'C'
using the C Set/2 compiler. I guess I'll move over to GCC for the time
being.

John

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